self-control

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7f0ccfd	What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.	responsibility courage destiny empowerment self-improvement self-control	Anais Nin
6488112	Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.	self-control	William Blake
0d1b350	Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.	bushido warriorship motivational life-lessons life wisdom inspirational warrior-ethos martial-arts ataraxy serenity warriors anger-management anger life-experience inner-peace self-control	Bohdi Sanders
bd2707b	I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.	leadership inspirational self-control	Robert E. Lee
4282b4c	The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.	temptation self-control	Oscar Wilde
73c13e6	Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn't keep a hard eye on herself.	coping-strategies dreaming worrying crying self-control	Kevin Brockmeier
e02a415	Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.	stoic stoicism self-control	Epictetus
c69914f	Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.	uprightness priorities self-improvement self-control	William Shakespeare
cbf23db	You decide your own level of involvement.	tyler-durden social-activism willpower cooperation self-control	Chuck Palahniuk
a723136	It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.	emotion self-discipline frustration despair self-control	John Howard Griffin
7c87451	Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.	silence self-control	Philip Roth
c61b330	He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.	self-restraint self-control	John Irving
1d83c27	There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.	responsibility liberty self-control	H.G. Wells
3fad8dc	There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.	self-control	Leo Tolstoy
57d1bb1	It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.	maturation discipline self-control	Joseph J. Ellis
ebd640a	"Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy."	the-arithmetic leadership self-control	Joseph J. Ellis
a1d4cad	Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was just a marker, not a cause. By way of analogy, teenagers who visit ski resorts over winter break probably have a superior record of being admitted to the Ivy League. Should we therefore hire consultants to teach low-income children how to ski in order to improve the odds that colleges will accept them?	self-discipline self-control	Alfie Kohn
c54b50d	Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school.	humor self-control school	Ilona Andrews
a1a6a40	"In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces. Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me."	theatre morality mask corporate-culture corporate-world phony faking fake masks smile moral smiling drama self-control	Barbara Ehrenreich
7956bb5	When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.	inspirational-quotes mind-body-spirit responsiveness mindfulness present-moment self-control	Lama Surya Das

7f0ccfd

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

responsibility courage destiny empowerment self-improvement self-control

Anais Nin

6488112

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

self-control

William Blake

0d1b350

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

bushido warriorship motivational life-lessons life wisdom inspirational warrior-ethos martial-arts ataraxy serenity warriors anger-management anger life-experience inner-peace self-control

Bohdi Sanders

bd2707b

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

leadership inspirational self-control

Robert E. Lee

4282b4c

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

temptation self-control

Oscar Wilde

73c13e6

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn't keep a hard eye on herself.

coping-strategies dreaming worrying crying self-control

Kevin Brockmeier

e02a415

Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached you yet, don't let your desire run ahead of you, be patient until your turn comes. Adopt a similar attitude with regard to children, wife, wealth and status, and in time, you will be entitled to dine with the gods. Go further and decline these goods even when they are on offer and you will have a share in the gods' power as well as their company. That is how Diogenes, Heraclitus and philosophers like them came to be called, and considered, divine.

stoic stoicism self-control

Epictetus

c69914f

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

uprightness priorities self-improvement self-control

William Shakespeare

cbf23db

You decide your own level of involvement.

tyler-durden social-activism willpower cooperation self-control

Chuck Palahniuk

a723136

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

emotion self-discipline frustration despair self-control

John Howard Griffin

7c87451

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

silence self-control

Philip Roth

c61b330

He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.

self-restraint self-control

John Irving

1d83c27

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.

responsibility liberty self-control

H.G. Wells

3fad8dc

There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.

self-control

Leo Tolstoy

57d1bb1

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

maturation discipline self-control

Joseph J. Ellis

ebd640a

"Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy."

the-arithmetic leadership self-control

Joseph J. Ellis

a1d4cad

Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was just a marker, not a cause. By way of analogy, teenagers who visit ski resorts over winter break probably have a superior record of being admitted to the Ivy League. Should we therefore hire consultants to teach low-income children how to ski in order to improve the odds that colleges will accept them?

self-discipline self-control

Alfie Kohn

c54b50d

Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school.

humor self-control school

Ilona Andrews

a1a6a40

"In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces. Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me."

theatre morality mask corporate-culture corporate-world phony faking fake masks smile moral smiling drama self-control

Barbara Ehrenreich

7956bb5

When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.

inspirational-quotes mind-body-spirit responsiveness mindfulness present-moment self-control

Lama Surya Das